“Vaccines do not cause autism”
Africa Check rated this: True
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“Winston Churchill said “When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realise no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Old man being buried in his car in Kenya”
Africa Check rated this: Misleading
“Kenyan governor or South African councillor launching safety lights outside a grass-thatched mud house”
Africa Check rated this: Misleading
“Receiving a phone call from a number with '666' in it will kill you”
Africa Check rated this: Hoax
“Bukola Saraki, the president of Nigeria’s senate, had returned to the ruling All Progressives Congress just months after he left in protest”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Cancer will disappear if patients stop eating sugar, drink lemon juice before meals for three months and take spoonfuls of coconut oil morning and night.”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha has pledged to help Atiku Abubakar win at the tribunal. Okorocha was an APC senatorial candidate in the election”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Trees in Finland can take 120 years to mature”
Africa Check rated this: Correct
“Bill Cosby was framed with rape to ‘stop him buying NBC”
Africa Check rated this: False
“George Washington said “A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Russian laboratory’ invented way to remove black skin”
Africa Check rated this: Hoax
“Warning against stepping on a certain insect, or the entire sole of your foot will be punctured with holes.”
Africa Check rated this: Hoax
“CNN used the same girl in three different refugee crisis photos”
Africa Check rated this: Misleading
“Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Biafra would take over from Nigeria as the giant of Africa”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Man faked being deaf and dumb for 62 years to avoid listening to his wife”
Africa Check rated this: Satire
“Photo of convoy is President Uhuru Kenyatta going for haircut.”
Africa Check rated this: False
“South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa ‘dancing like nyaope boys’”
Africa Check rated this: Fake
“Council has declared Biafra the “most brilliant region in Nigeria”
Africa Check rated this: False
“In 1994, only 36% of the population in our country had access to electricity. Today, eight out of 10 South Africans have electricity in their homes.”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect